Home Educating children with special educational needs

“So much of the failure in school comes directly out of boredom, which comes directly out of the larger failure to stimulate all those areas in the child”s brain which could give him so many more ways of responding to his world.’ ~ Jean Houston

This is the web site of the HE-Special-UK mailing list. We are a group of families who Home Educate children with Special Educational Needs and disabilities.

“Home Education” is the UK term for what may be better known as Homeschooling. Our children don't attend school, or in some cases may only attend school part time.

If you are Home Educating a child with Special Educational Needs or disabilities, or if this is something that you are thinking about, then I'd like to invite you to join our email list. You will be very welcome.

To find out more about Home Education have a look at our FAQ page, or read some of our articles.

Articles

ME and Home Education

Is it suitable for sick children to go to school? A bums on seats approach is not an education. Nor is spending most of the school day, resting on cushions in sick bay...

Why we are going to Home Educate

We both hated school, David's dad in the forces and a list of schools to work his way through. Me shy and looking back now, school phobic by fourteen yet unaware and compulsorily forced to go. Sheer hell for years. All the time being told that those years were the best of my life...

Learning about Maths

My 3 children have always been autonomously educated. I have never attempted to 'teach' them anything until they requested input. I have never required them to do anything but what they have freely chosen to do.